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Farmers weekly Vet Viewpoint 2.5.18

Wednesday, 6 June 2018 - 1:44pm

At St. Boniface Vets, many of our dairy herds are Autumn block calving and will shortly be considering their selective dry cow management. Therefore, we thought we’d share a few reminders as to why a selective approach is the best approach:

There is no sense in giving antibiotic dry cow therapy to an uninfected cow

In fact, if you do give antibiotics to low somatic cell count cows, their risk of coliform mastitis in the next lactation actually increases

Of 52 UK farms studied, those that were using selective dry cow management were significantly less likely to have cows developing mastitis in the first 30 days of lactation.

Protection against new infection in the dry period is much better achieved by using teat sealants and will reduce the risk by around 25%

To discuss dry cow management with a member of the farm team, please call the practice - 01363 772860 (and select option 2).

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